Facilities

Facilities

The University’s strategic investment in high quality, high profile research facilities over the past decade fosters innovation and creativity and reflects Salford's focus on real world, people-centred research.

Science and Engineering Research Facilities

Salford Analytical Services (SAS) is a specialised University commercial venture bringing together research, enterprise and state-of-the-art facilities. Run by senior technical consultant managers with over 45 years industrial experience between them, SAS has an excellent comprehensive collection of key analytical instruments. Our core analytical techniques include Microscopy, Spectroscopy, and X-Ray Diffraction.

As well as providing an invaluable service to researchers in the University, SAS works with many major blue chip organisations, providing expert consultancy support for problem-solving and routine analytical requirements.

Energy House

Salford Energy House is an “old-build” traditional Salford style house (c.1920s) that has been constructed from reclaimed materials to represent 20% of the UK’s current building stock.

The house has been constructed within an environmentally controllable laboratory in which levels of heat, light, humidity and even wind can be independently adjusted and managed; enabling the development and testing of new low-carbon materials, technologies and products.

THINKlab – Space to Think

THINKlab is a futuristic and spacious research environment with state-of-the-art facilities. Colour, light, sound and technology combine to provide an atmospheric, stylish space that stimulates debate, collaboration and innovation and facilitates research related to Information and Communication Technologies, providing answers to challenges faced by industry, commerce and the community.

THINKlab is committed to conducting interdisciplinary research to address complex social, economic and environmental challenges. Research at the Thinklab aims to develop innovative digital solutions to the challenges faced by industry and the community.

The Digital Media Performance Lab

This high-end performance space opened in October 2011 at the University’s new campus at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays.

The technical facilities of the DMPL combine the technology of a TV studio, the excitement and entertainment of live theatre with the visual experience of cinema. Its technical infrastructure is that of a black box theatre, hard wired over a grid at floor and ceiling grid levels controlled from a fully equipped flexible control room with verbal connection via a digital intercom system.

Centre for Rehabilitation and Human Performance Research Gait Lab

This suite of equipment is designed to collect objective data on human kinetics and kinematics, muscular activity and other physiological measures. It features the latest motion tracking and analysis software, and is currently being enhanced by infrastructure funding. It is at the forefront of multidisciplinary clinical research at Salford.

The Centre for Virtual Environments and Future Media

This is the UK's leading centre researching telepresence and has an unprecedented critical mass of systems and hardware to support its research goals, including ‘the Octave’, a reconfigurable octagonal projection system that can be broken down and recompiled into many types of industrially familiar systems to assess best fit for emerging applications.